Northern Cape

About half of the population of the Northern Cape is of mixed race. Blacks make up about one-third of the population, and whites constitute about one-tenth. Slightly more than half of the people in the Northern Cape speak Afrikaans. About one-third of the people speak Setswana. Other important languages are isiXhosa, English, and Sesotho. More than two-thirds of the people live in rural areas. The real San live in the Kalahari.

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